8 dead ricer-fans in Maryland

[kroberts]

The latest. A bunch of barely-pubescent dickwads were doing the Fast & Furious on the side of a public highway last night. The requisite burnout contest must have got a little out of hand. Some poor bastard in a Ford Crown Vickie, just driving by, plowed through 13 of 'em. His vision reportedly obscured by the roasting tire and CV joint smoke.

It's really sad, that Ford is all messed up.

Darwin at work.

[devonjordan]

The worst part about that is that the guy will probably get 8 counts of vehicular manslaughter, for doing us all a favor.

May the people who died rest in peace, but that is just stupid!

[Erik j]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/16/drag.race.deaths.ap/?iref=mpstoryview

There are no charges being filed for the crown vic driver. The people who were killed were not kids, there were older (60+) people there too.

[JasonC]

Street racing will allways happen. I just hope this don't reflect racing as "evil". Since we are trying to get a drg strip and road coarse in up here in Western Maryland.

[1991 318is]

Reading the article, you can't help notice that most of the crowd were adults from age 20 to 60. That age group would more likely watching muscle cars drag race instead of ricers. It was before dawn and in the video on CNN all of the police and safety vehicles have their lights on and it appears to dark. The Crown Victoria that plowed into the crowd did not have it's headlights on according to one of the witnesses. It just gets worse.

[M42Technik]

I figured this would come up soon enough, and its all over the news here. Needless to say, we can all just go back to the conclusion we come to in all these type of threads:

Don't do it unless its sanctioned and on a closed course. Just be smart, and don't street race.

As for that course in MD Jason, I think every liberal yuppie in MD will be up in arms, so don't get your hopes up.

I wonder if Team Skidkids was there? :nice:

[M42Technik]

Hey moar dead fucktard streetracers. Thank God

"Fans had spilled onto the smoky, dark road to watch the cars drive away when a white Ford Crown Victoria unexpectedly came up from behind and smashed into them.
"There were just bodies everywhere; it was horrible," said Crystal Gaines, 27, of Indian Head, whose father was killed.

Police interviewed the Crown Victoria driver, but no charges were pending, Copeland said. Authorities were looking for the drivers of the two cars involved in the race.

The combination of the smoke and the dark morning likely meant the unsuspecting driver could not see the crowd, police said. A tractor-trailer that came by shortly afterward may also have struck someone on the roadside as it tried to avoid the crash scene, according to investigators

Jalopnik news update.

Pretty sad man.

[CleanAzzE30z]

fuck. Sad on more than 1 level.



Mariano

[mtechnik]

Saw this on CNN yesterday indeed.

Sad sad situation